Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-09-26 – The Gift of Silence – Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-07-27 – Part 2: The Mystery of Who We Are – Everything we cherish–love, creativity, wisdom, aliveness– arises out of our capacity to arrive in Beingness. This talk explores the stress that leads us to cut off from our natural state of being, and…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-07-06 – The Joy of Conscious Relationships (from 2007-09-19) – We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and gives ris…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-03-16 – Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality – Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground– avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk e…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-03-09 – Trusting Our Secret Beauty – When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don’t trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt,…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-03-02 – Healing into Life and Death – Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-31 – Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart – Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and the key meditative he…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2011-01-12 – The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-12-08 – Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it’s narrow fixation, and the prayer that arises out of our deep heart’s longing. We explore h…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-11-24 – Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity – Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life–gratitude and generosity–includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-10-03 – The Path of Peace – Awakening from the Trance of Separation – We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2010-07-21 – For many of us, the most apparent junctures of spiritual transformation are spurred on by challenging life situations. This talk looks at how our conscious aspiration for awakening, and our practice of mindful presence, can help us find pe…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 2007-12-19 – In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This…